A recent archaeological discovery in Brazil’s Seridó region has unearthed 9,000-year-old rock art that intriguingly features ...

All human beings age. It is part of our biology and limits our lifespan to slightly over 120 years. Not all animals experience aging during their lives. Some animals' bodies do not gradually ...

Ancient South Americans were apparently inspired by fossilized dinosaur tracks in what is now eastern Brazil, where they cut figures into the rock, imprinted tens of millions of years earlier by the ...

Dinosaurs have fascinated humans for centuries, even though they never overlapped with humankind. Still, we know enough about their characteristics to imagine living together. A paleontologist helped ...

A new species of long-necked dinosaur has been discovered, and researchers say it is among the smallest known members of a family of giants. When scientists analyzed a fossil limb bone found in South ...

Human activity may be triggering the greatest extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs, according to scientists. Their study, based on a review of decades of research on ...

At first glance, dinosaur fossils and modern cancer research may seem worlds apart. But a new study suggests that soft tissue preserved for millions of years inside ancient bones could offer valuable ...